2. “It is difficult to describe how it feels to gaze at living human beings whom you’ve seen perform in hard-core porn. To shake the hand of a man whose precise erectile size, angle, and vasculature are known to you…To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm—that most unguarded and purely neural of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.”

– David Foster Wallace, “Big Red Son”

3. “In a sense, pornography is the most political form of fiction, dealing with how we use and exploit each other, in the most urgent and ruthless way.”

– J.G. Ballard, introduction to Crash

4. “In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the…